What are we doing...Think about this !!!

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Registered: 03-19-2003
What are we doing...Think about this !!!
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Wed, 06-04-2008 - 7:06pm

Got this as an e-mail and wanted your thoughts.


What are we doing...Think about this !!!!
> >
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> >
> >
> > This email comes in three parts: Read them all...
> >
> > Part 1
> > In just one year. Remember the election in 2006?
> > Thought you might like to read the following:
> > A little over one year ago:
> >
> > 1) Consumer confidence stood at a 2 1/2 year high;
> > 2) Regular gasoline sold for $2.19 a gallon;
> > 3) The unemployment rate was 4.5%.
> >
> > Since voting in a Democratic Congress in 2006 we have seen:
> >
> > 1) Consumer confidence plummet;
> > 2) The cost of regular gasoline soar to over $3..50 a gallon;
> > 3) Unemployment is up to 5% (a 10% increase);
> > 4) American households have seen $2.3 trillion in equity value
> > evaporate (stock and mutual fund losses);
> > 5) Americans have seen their home equity drop by $1.2 trillion dollars;
> > 6) 1% of American homes are in foreclosure.
> >
> > America voted for change in 2006, and we got it!
> >
> > Remember it's Congress that makes law not the President.
> > He has to work with what's handed to him.
> >
> >
> >
> > Part 2:
> > Taxes...Whether Democrat or a Republican you will find these
> > statistics enlightening and amazing.
> > www.taxfoundation.org/publications/show/151.html
> > Taxes under Clinton 1999 Taxes under Bush 2008
> > Single making 30K - tax $8,400 Single making 30K - tax
> > $4,500
> > Single making 50K - tax $14,000 Single making 50K - tax
> > $12,500
> > Single making 75K - tax $23,250 Single making 75K - tax
> > $18,750
> > Married making 60K - tax $16,800 Married making 60K- tax $9,000
> > Married making 75K - tax $21,000 Married making 75K - tax
> > $18,750
> > Married making 125K - tax $38,750 Married making 125K - tax
> > $31,250
> > Both democratic canidates will return to the higher tax rates
> >
> > It is amazing how many people that fall into the categories above
> > think Bush is screwing them and Bill Clinton was the greatest
> > President ever. If Obama or Hillary are elected, they both say they
> > will repeal the Bush tax cuts and a good portion of the people that
> > fall into the categories above can't wait for it to happen. This is
> > like the movie The Sting with Paul Newman; you scam somebody out of
> > some money and they don't even know what happened.
> >
> >
> >
> > PART 3:
> > You think the war in Iraq is costing us too much?
> >
> > Read this:
> > Boy am I confused. I have been hammered with the propaganda that it
> > is the Iraq war and the war on terror that is bankrupting us.
> >
> > I now find that to be RIDICULOUS.
> >
> > I hope the following 14 reasons are forwarded over and over again
> > until they are read so many times that the reader gets sick of reading
> > them. I
> > have included the URL's for verification of all the following facts.
> >
> > 1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal
> > aliens
> > each year by state governments.
> > Verify at:http://tinyurl.com/zob77
> >
> >
> > 2. $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance
> > programs
> > such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.
> > Verify at:http://www.cis..org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html
> >
> >
> > 3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal
> > aliens.
> > Verify at:http://www.cis..org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html
> >
> > 4. $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary
> > school
> > education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of
> > English!
> > Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt..0.html
> >
> >
> > 5 $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the
> > American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.
> > Verify athttp://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
> >
> >
> > 6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.
> > Verify at:http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
> >
> >
> > 7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.
> > Verify at:http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
> >
> >
> > 8 $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare &
> > social services by the American taxpayers.
> > Verify at: http://premiumcnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.html
> >
> >
> > 9. $200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused
> > by the illegal aliens.
> > Verify at:http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
> >
> >
> > 10. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate
> > that's two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In
> > particular,
> > their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in
> > the US
> > Verify at:http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt.01.html
> >
> >
> > 11. During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens
> > that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens
> > from Terrorist Countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth,
> > heroin
> > and marijuana, crossed into the U. S from the Southern border.
> > Verify at: Homeland Security Report: http://tinyurl.com/t9sht
> >
> >
> > 12. The National Policy Institute, 'estimated that the total
> > cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an
> > average
> > cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period.'
> > Verify at: http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/pdf/deportation.pdf
> >
> >
> > 13. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances
> > back to their countries of origin.
> > Verify at:http://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm
> >
> >
> > 14. 'The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million
> > Sex Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States.'
> > Verify at:http://www.drdsk.com/articleshtml
> >
> >
> > The total cost is a whopping $3383 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR.


iVillage Member
Registered: 08-10-2005
Fri, 06-06-2008 - 11:24am
It won't affect me in the least. We
iVillage Member
Registered: 10-17-2006
Fri, 06-06-2008 - 12:59pm
I respect people's right to their religious beliefs, and religious marriage,

 

iVillage Member
Registered: 10-17-2006
Fri, 06-06-2008 - 1:10pm

~Not really.....what I want to discuss why people think that this is right or wrong to start some talk about why they believe what they do.

 

iVillage Member
Registered: 01-02-2008
Fri, 06-06-2008 - 2:11pm

"So it's a separate issue for me, ie. sure there will be those who think it's wrong according to their religious beliefs for us to marry, but then their religious organizations/denominations don't have to marry us. However, should their religious ideas dictate other people's civic rights? No."

This pretty well sums up my position on that (totally separate from this thread) topic. I just wanted to say that I appreciate that you "get it". I wonder...do you "respect" it? (And that's not being snotty :) I'm truly curious if it's a position you can respect the way I can respect, but disagree with, homosexual's right to civil liberties such as marriage union?)




Edited 6/6/2008 2:13 pm ET by bizzymomoffive
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iVillage Member
Registered: 03-19-2003
Fri, 06-06-2008 - 4:02pm
No you don't have to approve it to become legal......but I do have to believe in something to support it.
iVillage Member
Registered: 09-08-2006
Fri, 06-06-2008 - 8:26pm

Yeah, yeah so would I.

 

iVillage Member
Registered: 10-17-2006
Fri, 06-06-2008 - 11:49pm

I probably respect

 

iVillage Member
Registered: 10-17-2006
Sat, 06-07-2008 - 12:03am

As an aside, here our largest Protestant Christian denomination wrote and told our Supreme Court and Parliament that they wished to be able to legally marry us.

 

iVillage Member
Registered: 10-17-2006
Sat, 06-07-2008 - 12:08am
Deleting my post, as I've changed my mind and am going to move on.

 

iVillage Member
Registered: 01-02-2008
Sat, 06-07-2008 - 1:01am
Good! Then we'd be cool :) I could care less if someone disagrees with my marriage (and FTR, my MIL did for the longest time!)

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